Cage

Understanding Social Control: Formal and Informal Systems

Social control encompasses many techniques, methods, and mechanisms that institutions employ to guide and regulate human behavior within a community. It is a vital socio-cultural tool to establish systematic and relatively consistent boundaries for individual conduct. These boundaries motivate...

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Grafitti

Informal Control: Understanding the Impact of Graffiti on Public Space

Graffiti is now ubiquitous in public spaces, adorning facades, buildings, walls, trams, and streetlights. What sets graffiti apart from other visual elements in the urban landscape is its authenticity, the originality of gestures that range from leaving mundane marks...

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